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Written: Written in the second half of December 1913
Published:
First published in 1962 in the book V. I. Lenin i “Pravda”. 1912–1962.
Sent from Cracow to St. Petersburg.
Printed from the original.
Source:Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1977],
Moscow,
Volume 43,
page 370b.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
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This article is marked with three Ks
(KKK).[2] The boycott slogan should be given everywhere, but precisely
in such a form, and only in such a form, without using the word boycott.

For the sake of all the gods that be, don’t be drawn into giving
“scathing” answers to such gentlemen!

Notes

[2]Apparently this refers to an article by Lenin in connection with the
decision of the December meeting of the I.S.B. and the slanderous campaign
which the liquidationist newspapers raised around the resolution of the
meeting calling for a “unity” conference of the R.S.D.L.P.

The decision of the Cracow meeting of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P. with Party
functionaries “On the Reorganisation and the Work of the Editorial Board
of the Newspaper Pravda” stated that all “articles, which the
C.C. considers obligatory for publication, should be published immediately
(over an agreed signature)” (Lenin, Collected Works, Fifth
[Russian] Ed., Vol. 22, p. 270). This agreed signature were the letters
“KKK”. The C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. reaffirmed this decision at its meeting
in December 1913: “The for mer ruling to the effect that articles sent in
over the prearranged letters are to be published immediately and without
modification remains in force” (Istorichesky Arkhiv No. 4, 1959,
p. 42).